Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

✍ Scribed by Max Hastings

• Book ID: 100118262
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0008280541

✦ Synopsis

A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the RAF's 1943 assault on Germany's dams, has passed into legend as one of the RAF's greatest feats of arms. 'The Dambusters' 1955 movie made Barnes Wallis, inventor of the 'bouncing bomb' which breached the Mohne and Eder dams, one of Britain's most celebrated 'boffins'. Max Hastings's new book, however, also highlights the grim reality that 617 Squadron's achievement was not victimless. Drawing on harrowing survivors' narratives, he describes the stupendous floods that swept the Mohne and Eder valleys in the early darkness of 17 May, drowning around 1,400 people, almost half of them French prisoners or East European women forced labourers. Few modern writers are better qualified to offer a fresh telling of this amazing story. In 1977, for his classic history BOMBER COMMAND, the author interviewed Barnes Wallis, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris,...